Boban i Marko Markovic Orkestar

title:

Devla - Blown Away To Dancefloor Heaven

style:

Serbia/ Gypsy/ Balkan Brass/ Pop

release year:

2009

price:

15.00 €

label:

Piranha

format:

CD

Description

Clad in a suave white suit, it's not impossible to imagine why urban legends credit gypsy trumpet king Boban Markovic with getting his homeland out of a recent jam: Markovic's spit-fire precision is rumored to have so seduced Bill Clinton that the saxophone playing president called off the further NATO bombing of Serbia.
True or not, one thing is clear: Boban Markovic and his son and prized protégé Marko Markovic are the bomb in Balkan brass dance music, harnessing the absolute flexibility of Miles Davis and the cool funk of Herb Alpert in the ultimate expression of their Southern Serbian Rroma roots. Their latest album as the Boban and Marko Markovic Orkestar, Devla: Blown Away to Dancefloor Heaven, flies effortlessly between echoes of the Ottoman Empire and down-and-dirty grooves that would make P-Funk's jaws drop.